African Proverbs About Love
46 African sayings about love — 36 proverbs, 8 quotes, 2 short stories.
- Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.Proverb
- Love put the eaglet out of its nest.Proverb · Kenya
- Love has to be shown by deeds not words.Proverb
- To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better.Proverb · Senegal
- To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.Proverb · Congo
- A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.Proverb
- If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is.Proverb · Egypt
- Memories of Home for the HolidaysA Cameroonian short story by Loayeh Jumbam. The time is nine o’clock in the morning and it is the third day of Christmas break at Viterbo university.Short story · Cameroon
- No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.Quote · South Africa
- One doesn't love another, if one doesn't accept anything from her.Proverb · Niger
- One who loves you, warns you.Proverb · Uganda
- Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.Quote · South Africa
- People who love one another do not dwell on each other's mistakes.Proverb · Kenya
- Talking with one another is loving one another.Proverb · Kenya
- The house of a person we love is never far.Proverb · Kenya
- The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful.Proverb · Uganda
- The way to the beloved isn't thorny.Proverb · Cameroon
- There is always room for the person you love even if the house is crowded.Proverb
- To be smiled at isn't to be loved.Proverb · Kenya
- What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.Proverb
- When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.Proverb · Ethiopia
- Where there is love there is no darkness.Proverb · Burundi